MF#1
Sports
Miha Fontaine
born 2004Canadian freestyle skier
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Magog, Quebec
14 famous people from Magog, many of them performers
Miha Fontaine, the Canadian freestyle skier, is the most widely known, written about in 16 languages. Second and third on the list are Al Langlois and Nicolas Fontaine. The list comes to 4.6 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Quebec, at 6.1. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Miha Fontaine
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1904
Rouville Beaudry
Youngest
2004
Miha Fontaine
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Magog’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Magog is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 2.9 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Magog’s famous people were born
More were born in the 2000s than in any other decade: 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Magog
#2Sports
Al Langlois
1934–2020Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Nicolas Fontaine
born 1970Canadian freestyle skier
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Magog
The other 11 span the years 1904 to 2001.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Magog
Who is the most famous person from Magog?
Miha Fontaine (Canadian freestyle skier) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Al Langlois and Nicolas Fontaine.
How many famous people were born in Magog?
Wikidata has 30 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Magog known for?
Here the share is 36%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Magog?
The earliest is Rouville Beaudry, born in 1904, and the latest birth listed is 2004.
Who counts as from Magog?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Magog’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (6)
- Al Langlois: TGC Topps Gum Cards, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicolas Fontaine: Kiki117, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicolas Boulay: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Blondin: Communipomme, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alvin Head Moore: Publisher: Montreal, Lovell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Ball: Anonymous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).